Given the fact that the right -- not to mention many at the big news orgs-- tried to define Hillary around her health care debacle for literally years through the nineties, there was obviously a huge amount at stake in today's speech revisiting the fraught issue.

So, understandably, the Hillary campaign went all out in staging the event. Ben Smith, who was at the speech, shares a few of the telling details: American flags positioned for every camera angle, a backdrop emblazoned with "American Health Choices Plan," etc.

The reference to "choice," one surmises, is an anticipation of the argument that such measures will inevitably deny "choice" to consumers. Hillary, of course, has a more-than-passing familiarity with the pushback used by the forces that resist health care reform.